Our Mission
Bringing joy to people’s lives through our products, people, and a place to play.
Location
GamesXP
105 West Water St.
Decorah, IA 52101
Phone: 563-382-4966
Email: info@decorahgames.com
Store Hours
Monday: 10-5pm
Tuesday: 10-5pm
Wednesday: 10-5pm
Thursday: 10-5pm
Friday: 10-10:30pm
Saturday: 10-5pm
Sunday: CLOSED
The Owners
Tim & Kristen Borseth
Owners, Operators, Managers
Our Team
Rex Borseth
Co-owner, Manager, video game geek and repair tech emeritus
Natelie Schmalzried
Manager
Larry
Console and small electronics repair tech
Josh Hauber, Andrew Schmalzried
General store operations, Sales
Wayne Borseth, Isaac Borseth
Video game tester, Shelf “stalker”
Our Story
In the year of 2010, my family and I moved to the small town of Decorah, Iowa to start a church and ended up starting a video game store as well!
I bought into the business to spend more time with my teenage kids and meet people in the community, but in the process ended up becoming a safe, enjoyable, and really cool after school hang out spot for teenagers.
Over the years, we’ve expanded our floor space twice, added a game room, a “Magic: The Gathering” inventory, internet sales, and 7 extra employees.
The Game Exchange is a limited liability corporation (LLC) purchased in May of 2010 from a programming/music lessons store that had a very small used game store operation in its store front. Upon purchasing the business and assuming the rental contract, we remodeled the area by doubling the square footage and slowly remodeled the back practice room into a game room.
Our primary retail product is video games, video game systems, and accessories. Anything video game related both from the past and in the present we want to carry. We currently have on hand: Xbox Series, XBox One, Xbox 360, XBox, PS5, PS4, PS3, PS2, PS1, Nintendo Switch 1 & 2, Wii, Game Cube, N64, SNES, NES, Dreamcast, Sega Genesis, Intellivision, and Atari games and game systems. We also have other older, marginal game systems.
Along with our major systems, we carry smaller hand held systems and games such as: PSP, DS, GBA, Game Gear and Game Boy items. We also have a sizable DVD collection, with thousands of titles. We also have Blu-ray and HD movies on hand.
We also have an ever expanding selection of Magic: The Gathering cards and accessories. We carry new and old Magic cards, mats, dice, decks and a wide variety of other items. We also carry a large inventory of Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Riftbound, One Piece, Disney Lorcana, and more cards and accessories.
In addition to product, we offer service repair to get expensive electronics back up and running for a reasonable price. We repair gaming systems and accessories (Xbox, PS, Nintendo, DS, etc…).
We also provide a service to customers by buying product and selling their personal items on ebay and Amazon. Even though this is not a major income source, it is a service that we provide for the benefit of the customer and overall store reputation.
Lastly, we offer the use of our gaming room for free! Loaded with couches and chairs, 4 TVs, and a variety of arcade games, our game room is very popular with teenagers and gets filled up almost every weekday after 3pm. There’s a rental fee for the use of GamesXP systems, but otherwise it’s a fun, free hang out place.
On most Fridays, the entire store is open until 10:30 p.m. for game night. Game night includes video gaming in the back and official FNM (Friday Night Magic) tournaments in the front. We hosted our first pre-release event in April 2013, and have had a blast hosting them ever since.